diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 740b0f849..610b5a745 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ sudo: false
 jdk:
   - oraclejdk8
   - oraclejdk7
+  - openjdk8
   - openjdk7
 
 env:
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/rdfservice/impl/virtuoso/RDFServiceVirtuoso.java b/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/rdfservice/impl/virtuoso/RDFServiceVirtuoso.java
index 876069d07..248601fe5 100644
--- a/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/rdfservice/impl/virtuoso/RDFServiceVirtuoso.java
+++ b/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/rdfservice/impl/virtuoso/RDFServiceVirtuoso.java
@@ -192,8 +192,7 @@ public class RDFServiceVirtuoso extends RDFServiceSparql {
 				// If the object is a numeric literal
 				if (object.isLiteral() &&  isNumeric(object.asLiteral().getDatatypeURI())) {
 					// Find a matching statement in the triple store, based on normalized numeric values
-					double num = Double.parseDouble(object.asLiteral().getString());
-					StmtIterator matching = fromTripleStoreModel.listStatements(subject.asResource(), predicate, fromTripleStoreModel.createTypedLiteral(num));
+					StmtIterator matching = fromTripleStoreModel.listStatements(new VirtuosoDoubleSelector(subject.asResource(), predicate, object));
 
 					// For every matching statement
 					// Rewrite the object as the one in the file model (they are the same, just differ in datatype)
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/rdfservice/impl/virtuoso/VirtuosoDoubleSelector.java b/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/rdfservice/impl/virtuoso/VirtuosoDoubleSelector.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3ad3d73d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/main/java/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/rdfservice/impl/virtuoso/VirtuosoDoubleSelector.java
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/* $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ */
+
+package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.rdfservice.impl.virtuoso;
+
+import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Property;
+import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.RDFNode;
+import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Resource;
+import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.SimpleSelector;
+import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Statement;
+
+public class VirtuosoDoubleSelector extends SimpleSelector {
+    public VirtuosoDoubleSelector() {
+    }
+
+    public VirtuosoDoubleSelector(Resource subject, Property predicate, RDFNode object) {
+        super(subject, predicate, object);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean test(Statement statement) {
+        RDFNode objectToMatch = statement.getObject();
+
+        // Both values are numeric, so compare them as parsed doubles
+        if (objectToMatch.isLiteral()) {
+            String num1 = object.asLiteral().getString();
+            String num2 = objectToMatch.asLiteral().getString();
+
+            return Double.parseDouble(num1) == Double.parseDouble(num2);
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+}